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the guy in '81, 75% of the city voted for him in. '85, 78% of the city. can you imagine 8 in 10 new yorkers agreeing on anything? especially who will run the city. the guy per phenomenon if ied new york of a certain time and will be missed. >> he did and maybe sort of changed and maybe not permanently for but a moment what it meant to be a democrat. significant harsh budget cuts that he put in that were not always popular. his favorite moment walking down to the brooklyn bridge and intervened in a very rare transit strike under his watch and sort of, you know, shecheer on the people to walk across the street and say come walk over the bridge. we won't let the bastards bring us down. a huge champion of gay rights and had some really out there ideas. ideas like sending convicted drug dealers to concentration camps in the desert. >> wow. >> yeah. he was just -- he was really quintessentially new york in the way you're saying, toure, because he was unpredictable. he was brash. he was out there. he was excitable. just a larger than life figure for the city. >>
the guy in '81, 75% of the city voted for him in. '85, 78% of the city. can you imagine 8 in 10 new yorkers agreeing on anything? especially who will run the city. the guy per phenomenon if ied new york of a certain time and will be missed. >> he did and maybe sort of changed and maybe not permanently for but a moment what it meant to be a democrat. significant harsh budget cuts that he put in that were not always popular. his favorite moment walking down to the brooklyn bridge and...
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. >> i was just trying to watch "duck dive city" live premier and twitter exploded with this story. some of you may be wondering how the story comes about, especially one that develops mostly on twitter. well, it starts as you would expect with hard breaking news. it was a day like any other for buzz feed. yesterday afternoon andrew posts a picture of taco pat. >> aw! dumb. >> time stands adorably deliciously still. after everyone recovers, news rolls in. 8:01 p.m., politico posts the first piece on a testy exchange of woodward and an aide in the white house and then ben smith reports sperling sent the e-mail to woodward. some ironically tweets woodward makes me suspect nixon got a raw deal. chin up, buddy. katrina from the nation observes that smart interns at the publication have no idea who woodward is and d.c. establishment freaked out about the critique and then buzz feed chimes in and almost scolds everyone for no experience to know what the hell they're talking about. >> supposed to be you? >> that's not me. and then justin green punches back, if buzz feed explained the woodw
. >> i was just trying to watch "duck dive city" live premier and twitter exploded with this story. some of you may be wondering how the story comes about, especially one that develops mostly on twitter. well, it starts as you would expect with hard breaking news. it was a day like any other for buzz feed. yesterday afternoon andrew posts a picture of taco pat. >> aw! dumb. >> time stands adorably deliciously still. after everyone recovers, news rolls in. 8:01 p.m.,...
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and the federal role in funding transportation but there's obviously a big role for state, cities, municipalities providing money and policy innovation. in that sort of difference between federal and state and local, which is more important? is this more of a local, state and local issue than a federal issue? >> the truth is it matters at all levels of government. the federal government is a big funder of transportation. states have the ability to make decisions about how they spend a lot of those federal dollars and what projects they're developing and they also kick in a lot of their resources for transportation projects. one thing listeners should know about race in america is that 30 states in this country do not allow gas tax revenue to go to public transit projects and that is actually a vestage of states deciding not to allow public transit to fight racial integration so now this is not something that necessarily states are continuing to think about but the impacts of these laws that were adopted in the '50s are very much getting in the way of innovation and creating jobs for communities t
and the federal role in funding transportation but there's obviously a big role for state, cities, municipalities providing money and policy innovation. in that sort of difference between federal and state and local, which is more important? is this more of a local, state and local issue than a federal issue? >> the truth is it matters at all levels of government. the federal government is a big funder of transportation. states have the ability to make decisions about how they spend a lot...
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the new york city area. about an inch of snow, the winds gradually picking up and then tonight we'll see that pick up to eight to 12 inches of snow, blizzard conditions developing with winds gusting to 50 miles per hour and then tomorrow it will begin to die down just a bit and as the snow tapers off, continuing to see blowing and drifting snow as the winds could still gust higher than that 20 to 30-mile-per-hour range and city officials taking this seriously and we need to make preparations and just stay home, hunker down and stay off the roads. back to you. >> absolutely. nick walker, thank you. now to the weather channel's paul goodloe down the road from us in messy times square. >> reporter: yes. we are starting to see and then range midday and now changing back over to snow. sometimes sleet mixing in, as well. this is the calm before the storm and perhaps lulling people in to, oh, it's not going tock as bad as you are talking about. it's still early. the storm is getting closer and stronger as it moves
the new york city area. about an inch of snow, the winds gradually picking up and then tonight we'll see that pick up to eight to 12 inches of snow, blizzard conditions developing with winds gusting to 50 miles per hour and then tomorrow it will begin to die down just a bit and as the snow tapers off, continuing to see blowing and drifting snow as the winds could still gust higher than that 20 to 30-mile-per-hour range and city officials taking this seriously and we need to make preparations...